Italian Sausage Spiedini

With peppers, potatoes and a vegetable gravy

A simple yet very easy to make Italian dish using country style Italian sausage, peppers and potatoes. The skewers are cooked in the oven for one hour resulting in the sausage fat mixing with the roasted vegetables for an incredible gravy. Use thick fatty sausages for the best results, lean sausages will be too dry.

Ingredients

4 thick Italian sausages

3 different coloured capsicums

2 waxy potatoes

1 red onion

1 tbsp Italian herbs (with chili)

2 tsp garlic powder

Optional fresh rosemary leaves

1 cup of flat leaf parsley leaves

1 ½ cups dry white wine

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

Steps

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350°F – 180°C

Step 2

Slice the peppers, remove seeds and cut into chunks. Set aside.

Step 3

Peel and cut he onion into chunky pieces, separate layers, set aside.

Step 4

Thread the skewers starting with one potato piece, sausage, onion, pepper. Repeat twice alternating the pepper colours and finishing with potato on each end.

Step 5

Add a drizzle of olive oil to a baking pan. Place all the vegetable trimmings and any leftover pieces in the baking pan.

Step 6

Place the skewers on top of the vegetables, drizzle olive oil, and the Italian herbs, sprigs of fresh rosemary, salt and pepper. Add the white wine to the pan. Cover with foil and bake for approximately one hour at 350°F – 180°C. Remove foil and continue cooking until potatoes and sausage have browned. If the bottom of the pan is beginning to dry, add some water.

Step 7

Remove the skewers and set aside to rest in a warm spot on a hot plate.

Step 8

Deglaze the pan with water. (you can do this over low heat) Scrape the bottom to clean the pan using a wooden spoon, and transfer the liquid with all the vegetables into a blender and blitz until smooth.